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G. S. EATON.

TYPE RUBBING MACHINE.

Patented June 5,1883.

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G. S. EATON.

TYPE RUBBI-NG MACHINE.

No. 278,785. Patented June 5, 1883.

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G. s. EATON TYPE RUBBING MACHINE.

No. 278,785. Patented June 5,1883.

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NITED STATES PATENT Fries;

' GEORGE S. EATON, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK.

TQPE-RUBBING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,785, dated June 5, 1883.

Application filed July 31, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, GEORGE S. EATON, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of X'ewYol-k, have invented an Improvement in Type-Rubbing Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is for removing the burrs at the bases of the letters, and for smoothing the bodies of the types, and then setting such types up into line.

I am aware that machines have been made for rubbing types but they have been complicated and costly and liable to get out of repair.

My present invention is for simplifying the construction, lessening the cost, and adapting the machine to any width of types; and the improvement consists in the construction and combination of devices hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the machine, and Fig. 2 is a plan of the same with part of the bed and gearing re moved. Fig. 3 is in-elevation of the settingup mechanism. Fig. 4 is a plan of the same perpendicularly to the galley. Figs. 5 and 6 are separate views of the pusher mechanism.

A suitable bed-plate, A, is provided, upon which are received the bases of the two heads B C, which are provided with means for accurately adjusting them and holding them firmly. As a convenient means for so doing, the bed is shown with a dovetailed upper surface, over which the bases of the heads B and 0 pass. There are gibs and clamping-screws a to hold the parts firmly after being adjusted, and I employ the screws 0 c, that are fastened into the heads B O, and pass through studs f on the bed A, with nuts (Z (Z for accurately adjusting the said heads B G. I do not, however, limit myself to this particular way of adjusting the said heads B C. I

The screwrshould be used at the upper part to tie the heads B and 0 together and prevent any spring of the metal.

Upon the heads B 0 there. are shoulders for receiving the cutting-tools 'i i, which are made merely to take oft the burrs at the base of the letter. These cutters are adjustable, so that they may be removed and sharpened. They are to be set so that they are in line with the portions 2 2 of the surfaces bf the heads B 0; hence the type, after the burrs are removed,

passes in between the parts 2 2 of the heads B.

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| O, and the body of the type is rubbed by the metal of said heads, it only being necessary to smooth or burn'ish the sides of the type by contact with the metal surfaces, because the bodies of the types are cast of the proper dimensions,

done after such types have been'set up into line in a galley.

In order to feed the types into the rubbingmachine, I make use of a table, F, upon which the types are laid and fed in, as hereinafter set forth, and a conveyer, Z, to carry the types around between the cutting and rubbing portions of the instrument.

' There is a shaft, H, passing throughthe centers of the heads B G, driven by a gear-wheel or other suitable means, and upon this shaft the conveyer I is applied,preferably upon a square, so that the shaft can be drawn out of sorted between the heads and the shaft replaced, the said conveyer being of a thickare to be rubbed. V q

. The conveyer 1 may have one, two, or more radial surfaces that act to move. forward the types. I have shown two such faces at 5 5. The faces of the heads B O are to be made so that there is slightly more distance between said faces where the type is supplied than there is where the cutting and rubbing take place, so that the types can slide or be easily pushed endwise in between the faces of the heads B O at the line, or nearly so, of the table, and there are guides 3 4 on the table to direct the types in between the rubbing-surfaces, and there should be two thin offsets on the faces of the heads B '0, extending from the table in toward the center of said heads, upon which the type is supported, and between which the cutters 13 and between the rubbing or burnishing portions 2 2 of the heads. These parts are ferent thicknesses of types.

I prefer to construct the table F with an incline, base-plate, G, and to apply thereon the adjustable guides 3 and 4, the channel-way for the types to slide down upon the base-plate G being between these guides 3 and 4, and the table F being level, or nearly so, and connected with the guide 3. The edge of the table F ness adapted to the thickness of the types that all adjustable, so as to be adapted to the difand any other dressing of the types can be one conveyer, and another conveyer be ina conveyer l rises and carries the type up to the too should be rounded at 6, so that the type may be moved over this edge from the table F and fall into the inclined feeding-trough with the letter end at an inclination.

slide down the inclines Z Z into the galley m,

which galley is simply a plate with an edge, 8, turned up. This edge 8 should be lined with some yielding materialsuch as sheep-skin to prevent injury to the type-faces as they slide down the inclinesl, and are stopped by such leather on the flange or edge 8 of the galley m.

In order to give space for the rubbed type to slide down to its place in the galley, I employ a pusher, s, that moves the galley and type along upon its bearings at the sides of the heads B G. This pusher may be actuated by any suitable means. I have, however, shown the revolving cams 13 as the means for moving along the line-of types and usually the galley at the same time; but I remark that the line of types maybe moved along in the galley, if

desired. The pusher is reciprocated once each time that one of the conveyers passes to deliver a type, and it moves along the type in the galley, or the types and the galley, to the extent of the thickness of the type'that is added, and, drawing back, leaves a space for thenext letter or type to pass in between the line of types and the pusher. I have shown the pusher s as guided by a rod, it, supported in abearing, 10,

and drawn back by the spring 11. Upon this rod is a movable tappet, 12, against which the revolving cams :13 act to move it and the types along.

There are to be as many arms to the revolving cam 13 as there are faces 5 to the pusher Z, and the shaft 1) of this cam is suitably supported, and it is revolved by gear-wheels u, that connect the shaft p to the shaft H, so that the pusher s will be moved along by one of the earns 13, pressing against the tappet 12, as soon as one of the types has been discharged into the galley. As soon as the cam 13 revolves past the tappet 12 the spring 11 draws back the pusher to give the necessary space for the next type to be discharged into the galley.

A block or quad is to be laid in the galley to support the end type in the line of types. It is moved along with the line of types.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, in a type-rubbing machine, of the adjustable heads B O, cutters 'i, and revolving conveyer l, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the heads B C, 'having rubbing-surfaces 2 and cutters i, with the revolving conveyer I, feed-table F, deliveiyinclines Z, galley m, and-means, substantially as described, for moving the line of types endwise, substantially as set forth.

3. The feeding table having an inclined baseplate, G, and the adjustable guides-3 and 4, in combination with the adjustable heads B G, conveyer Z, and cutters i, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the rubbing mechanism and galley m, of the pusher s, revolving cams 13, tappet 12, shaft t, and spring 11, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 24th day of July, A. D. 1882.

GEO. S. EATON.

\Vitnesses:

HAROLD SERRELL, CHAS. H. SMITH. 

